The ORWH announces the publication of an investigator-initiated exploratory developmental program, using the R21 grant mechanism.

ORWH and its scientific partners across the NIH are interested particularly in encouraging extramural investigators to undertake new interdisciplinary research to advance studies on how sex and gender factors affect women's health.

Women's activities are limited by health problems approximately 25 percent more days each year than are men's activities," according to ORWH.

What is more, the statistics on gender disparities are true even when reproductive problems are eliminated from the calculations, according to the ORWH summary report entitled "Opportunities for Research on Women's Health.

Over the past decade, ORWH has been instrumental in the growing recognition of autoimmunity as a major women's health issue and category of disease, like cancer and heart disease, with the same underlying cause -- autoimmunity," said Virginia T.

By naming autoimmunity a top research priority, NIH and ORWH have helped place autoimmunity in its proper perspective as a major cause of disability and chronic illness among women in the childbearing years, affecting as many as 30 million American women.

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